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ENTREPRENEURIAL TELECOM VETERAN MARK TUBINIS JOINS CEDAR POINT COMMUNICATIONS AS CTO
Cedar Point Communications
ENTREPRENEURIAL TELECOM VETERAN MARK TUBINIS JOINS CEDAR POINT COMMUNICATIONS AS CTO
DERRY, NH (April 30, 2007) - Cedar Point Communications, the leader in integrated VoIP switching technologies for service provider and enterprise telecommunications, today signaled a new phase in the company’s growth, with the naming of Mark Tubinis as the company’s first Chief Technology Officer.
Tubinis, whose 30-year career includes a co-founder role with WaterCove Networks, joins Cedar Point after having served most recently as a vice president in the Mobile Solutions Division of Alcatel. With Cedar Point, he will be responsible for continuing the evolution of the SAFARI C³ Multimedia Switching System, with a particular emphasis on increasing scalability, operational simplicity and the development of new residential and business applications.
“Our customers and our own recognition of our leadership position within the VoIP industry continually challenge us to improve on the simplicity, cost-effectiveness and scalability of our existing products,” said Andy Paff, president and CEO of Cedar Point Communications. “Mark Tubinis’ expertise and visionary approach will be invaluable in guiding the next wave of innovation that will help us to maintain our technological and market leadership.”
“The market opportunity for network operators worldwide is in the deployment of highly-flexible VoIP solutions that support fixed deployments today, and mobile communications in the future that can evolve to support rich multimedia applications,” said Tubinis. “I look forward to working with the Cedar Point team to increase the current capabilities of SAFARI C³, and to leverage SAFARI’s highly-advanced architecture to help meet the needs of operators well into the future.”
During his three-year tenure with Alcatel, Tubinis headed the Packet Core and IMS Business Unit, a worldwide division that helped to position the company as a leading vendor of IMS products. Previously, Tubinis had served as vice president, CTO and co-founder of WaterCove Networks, a pioneer in the development of next generation, intelligent mobile data switching products that was acquired by Alcatel in 2004. With WaterCove, he and his engineering team developed patented technology related to mobile data services and drove the creation of the company’s mobile data switching solution product line
In addition, Tubinis has served as president, CEO and CTO of Innovative Telecom, a provider of transaction services for wireline and wireless service providers; as CTO of Summa Four, a pioneer in open switching systems; and as Entrepreneur-In-Residence with Charles River Ventures.
Tubinis holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University and an M.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
About Cedar Point Communications
Cedar Point Communications’ totally integrated voice and multimedia switches provide network operators with cost-efficient, less complex voice-over-IP alternatives to distributed soft-switching telephony options. Cedar Point’s SAFARI C³ Media Switching System is a PacketCable™-qualified solution that supports legacy circuit and NCS voice services, as well as delivering core IMS capabilities today that support the anticipated migration to an IMS architecture for converged networks. The company is based in Derry, NH. For more information, please visit www.cedarpointcom.com.
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